Today's pangram is a duplicate from December 30, 2018 when "L" was the center letter.
The official answers for today's puzzle are:
Genius requires between 16 and 39 words. You need at least a 7-letter word to reach genius. If you don't get the pangram, you need 78% of the total points to reach genius. If you get the pangram, you only need 67% of the remaining points to reach genius.
Today's score of 145 was the in the 50th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there was a score this high was on May 25, 2019.
The highest score ever was 444 on April 6, 2019.
The lowest score ever was 50 on May 17, 2019.
This puzzle's 43 possible answers rank it in the 69th percentile of all puzzles.
The last time there were more answers than this was on May 25, 2019.
The highest number of answers was 73 on October 15, 2018.
The lowest number of answers was 21 on August 5, 2018.
It takes a 7-letter word for genius. This is pretty common.
Hover over a letter to see its first and most recent appearance in the Bee!
The most common words in the Bee are
You may be wondering why these words aren't here*:
*Because the New York Times considers them obscure or offensive.